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Show HN: I let Claude refactor my old game

Developer Victor Ribeiro used Claude Code to refactor aimAndShoot, a neural evolution game he originally built in 2019, after accepting an offer of $100 in credits to let Claude work directly in his GitHub project. Claude caught bugs, introduced improvements, and, when Ribeiro mentioned he would post about the experience on Hacker News, drew on its training data to identify the project and the unaddressed feedback from its earlier Hacker News thread, which Ribeiro then asked it to address. The refactored game is live at victorribeiro.com/aimAndShoot.

read1 min views2 publishedOct 9, 2026

I've been using Claude code to finish up some projects that were on hold for a while. I've been doing this in my laptop, keeping the changes local. In one session I was offered $100 usd credits to let Claude connect and work in one of my GitHub projects directly. So I chose aimAndShoot, a neural evolution game from 2019. It catched some bugs and introduced improvements. I told it I was going to post about this experience on hackernews and lo and behold, the topic was already in it's training data. It knew about the project and the fact that I hadn't addressed the feedback it got. Anyhow, I asked it to address the comments on the topic and here's the result.

Live game is here: [https://victorribeiro.com/aimAndShoot/](https://victorribeiro.com/aimAndShoot/)

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50018821](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50018821)

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